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Date:      Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:03:21 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AlphaBIOS documentation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980602075834.2250C-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980601144428.15441S-100000@ascetic.portal.ca>

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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Doug Rabson wrote:
> 
> > Freely distributable source of OSF
> > palcode for several platforms is available.
> 
> Excellent! Where does one get this? And why isn't it on the EBDSK
> or in the Linux source (both of which contain something that pretty
> closely resembles OSF PALcode, but not closely enough that it would
> run DU or NetBSD)?

Which parts of the PALcode in the Linux source are incompatible?  I think
Jason said that it was just the handling of the logout area.  I don't
think I will have any real problem using this code for FreeBSD.  The main
problem for NetBSD with milo would be with the HWRPB, I think.  Milo only
provides an extremely rough sketch of this.

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